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Monday, September 12, 2011

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

I always thought there was something a little fishy about SpongeBob Squarepants.

SpongeBob in hot water from study of 4-year-olds

By Lindsey Tanner - Associated Press

CHICAGO
(AP) — The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from
a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can
cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds.

The
problems were seen in a study of 60 children randomly assigned to
either watch "SpongeBob," or the slower-paced PBS cartoon "Caillou" or
assigned to draw pictures. Immediately after these nine-minute
assignments, the kids took mental function tests; those who had watched
"SpongeBob" did measurably worse than the others.

Previous
research has linked TV-watching with long-term attention problems in
children, but the new study suggests more immediate problems can occur
after very little exposure — results that parents of young kids should
be alert to, the study authors said.